A Quick Guide to Better Presentations
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This book is your quick guide to better presentations. In ten short chapters, you’ll have the strategies you need to create viewer-friendly presentations and to develop the speaking skills you need to mark you as a professional.
Like every other form of business communication, presentations have two purposes:
1. to make your company look good.
2. to make you look good.
This book will refer to PowerPoint® presentations but you can extrapolate the guidelines to any presentation format you choose. A format that adds more movement to your presentation or has backgrounds that are more interesting isn’t necessarily more accessible or more appreciated by your audience.
If you’re going to apply the KISS principle (Keep It Short and Simple) to any form of business communication, your presentation is the one to pick. The strategies that follow will help you make a good impression and avoid boring your audience, and give you a pattern to follow that will make you a sought after presenter.
Heather Wright
Heather Wright is an Amazon bestseller and busy freelance writer. Heather writes for three audiences: 1) business people looking for tips to help them become better communicators in print and in person, 2) writers of all ages, and 3) teachers of English and Language Arts. Heather worked for many years in companies, both local and global in scope, and now runs her own freelance writing business. Through these experiences, she developed her own communications skill set that she now shares in her Better Business Communications books and with her students, in the classroom, as well as, in the workplace. Heather's stories for children and teens have been published in Kayak: Canada's History Magazine for Teens and by Carmel Tree Publishing. Heather enjoys presenting writing workshops for writers of all ages, and has done many over the years through her associations with the Canadian Authors' Association and the Professional Writers' Association of Canada. She is the author of 201 Writing Prompts, Writing Fiction: A Hands-On Guide for Teens, Writing Fiction: A Guide for Pre-Teens, as well as fiction for teen and pre-teen readers. http://www.wrightingwords.com Heather has received three Writer's Reserve grants from the Ontario Arts Council for ongoing work on books for teens.
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A Quick Guide to Better Presentations - Heather Wright
Better Business Communication
a quick guide to
BETTER
PRESENTATIONS
HEATHER WRIGHT
Copyright © 2015 by Heather Wright.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, write to the publisher, addressed Attention: Permissions Coordinator,
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Heather Wright
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Better Business Communication
A Quick Guide to Better Presentations/ Heather Wright. —1st ed.
ISBN 9781311114235
Contents
Introduction
Tip 1: Planning
Tip 2: Thinking of the Audience
Tip 3: Biting the Bullets
Tip 4: Fonts & Color
Tip 5: Sound & Action
Tip 6: The Handout
Tip 7: Charts & Tables
Tip 8: The Singer not the Song
Tip 9: Be Prepared
Step 10: Proofread – Errors look worse in 30 font.
Last Words
About the Author
Introduction
This book is your quick guide to better presentations. In ten short chapters, you’ll have the strategies you need to create viewer-friendly presentations and to develop the speaking skills you need to mark you as a professional.